The Time Stealers

What Nitty Gritty brings to your classroom:
High interest, rich texts with themes relevant and of interest to young adolescents
Stimulating and engaging discussion prompts, and activities focusing on key critical literacy areas including author purpose, power of language, characterisation, bias, point of view and more.
Cutting-edge design and text layout to engage young adult readers
Text written by a range of local and international authors including Diana Noonan, Yakkity, yakkity, yak. If it weren’t for his self-obsessed ex-girlfriend Jaz, Neil Jarvie would be entirely happy with his life in Tal City. Sure there were probably more manicured trees than there were people, but the surveillance net was so thorough you could always find any person or place or information you wanted on your mobile. Except, oddly enough, about the history of Tal City. And now he had a Timer on his hands. He’d thought it would be interesting to help out a time traveller, but this one seemed obsessed with her own history, as well as ridiculously paranoid about surveillance …

Jillian Sullivan, William Taylor, Stu Duval, Tina Shaw, John Lockyer, Glynne MacLean and more
a range of genres: mystery, adventure, historical fiction, science fiction, fantasy and contemporary fiction
Different social and cultural perspectives, strong themes and messages to spark discussion. and encourage the questioning, challenging and deconstructing of texts
Gatefold back covers with critical literacy discussion prompts for literature circles.